Flannery O'Connor Quotes About Religion

Quotes about: Religion

• What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Thinking, People, Religion

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “Collected Works”, New York, NY : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press

• One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer and vaguer and more and more relative, to banish intellectual distinctions, to depend on feeling instead of thought, and gradually to come to believe that God has no power, that he cannot communicate with us, cannot reveal himself to us, indeed has not done so, and that religion is our own sweet invention.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Sweet, Women, Believe

• She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Christian, Believe, Religion

  Flannery O'Connor (1971). “The Complete Stories”, p.316, Macmillan

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